I think this is a great description. “What happens if we seek out symmetry gradients in brain networks, but STV isn’t true?” is something we’ve considered, and determining ground-truth is definitely tricky. I refer to this scenario as the “Symmetry Theory of Homeostatic Regulation”—https://opentheory.net/2017/05/why-we-seek-out-pleasure-the-symmetry-theory-of-homeostatic-regulation/ (mostly worth looking at the title image, no need to read the post)
I’m (hopefully) about a week away from releasing an update to some of the things we discussed in Boston, basically a unification of Friston/Carhart-Harris’s work on FEP/REBUS with Atasoy’s work on CSHW—will be glad to get your thoughts when it’s posted.
Oh, an additional detail that I think was part of that conversation: there’s only really one way to have a ‘0-error’ state in a hierarchical controls framework, but there are potentially many consonant energy distributions that are dissonant with each other. Whether or not that’s true, and whether each is individually positive valence, will be interesting to find out.
(If I had to guess, I would guess the different mutually-dissonant internally-consonant distributions correspond to things like ‘moods’, in a way that means they’re not really value but are somewhat close, and also that they exist. The thing that seems vaguely in this style are differing brain waves during different cycles of sleep, but I don’t know if those have clear waking analogs, or what they look like in the CSHW picture.)
I think this is a great description. “What happens if we seek out symmetry gradients in brain networks, but STV isn’t true?” is something we’ve considered, and determining ground-truth is definitely tricky. I refer to this scenario as the “Symmetry Theory of Homeostatic Regulation”—https://opentheory.net/2017/05/why-we-seek-out-pleasure-the-symmetry-theory-of-homeostatic-regulation/ (mostly worth looking at the title image, no need to read the post)
I’m (hopefully) about a week away from releasing an update to some of the things we discussed in Boston, basically a unification of Friston/Carhart-Harris’s work on FEP/REBUS with Atasoy’s work on CSHW—will be glad to get your thoughts when it’s posted.
Oh, an additional detail that I think was part of that conversation: there’s only really one way to have a ‘0-error’ state in a hierarchical controls framework, but there are potentially many consonant energy distributions that are dissonant with each other. Whether or not that’s true, and whether each is individually positive valence, will be interesting to find out.
(If I had to guess, I would guess the different mutually-dissonant internally-consonant distributions correspond to things like ‘moods’, in a way that means they’re not really value but are somewhat close, and also that they exist. The thing that seems vaguely in this style are differing brain waves during different cycles of sleep, but I don’t know if those have clear waking analogs, or what they look like in the CSHW picture.)